Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-06-08
aminers yesterday, all of whom failed to

aminers yesterday, all of whom failed t
 pass.
 About dozen went out to-day [ prospect for the ledge from which tn
 rich float came that was found yester
 day.
 Considerable excitement was created
 yesterday by the finding of lot of ex | tremely rich float within a few miles O 1 Prescott.
 1 The funeral of Andrew Herndon vii
 take place from the residence of tn, family, at 0:3O o'clock Wednesds, forenoon.
 J. .. Adamson is shipping several thousand sheep to Prescott, to be slaughtered for mutton. from his ranch
 in Apache county.
 A colored woman, who recently came
 here, but whose name We wer, unsblt to learn, died, on Granite street. yester- day evening.
 A number of citizens from different
 parts of the county have called at this
 office during the past two days and or
 dered the JouRNAL-MINER sent to them.
 Ed. T. Cartledge, of the tax depart
 ment of the A. T. & s. F. railroad, is in
 Prescott, to look after the interests of
 the road before the territorial board of equalization.
 The first strawberries of the season came in, yesterday, from $. c, Reese's Chino Valley ranch. They were con- signed to Jules Baunann, who has con tracted for Mir Reese's entire crop.
 An excellently well executed pencil drawing, by Thos. Scholley, is on exhi- bition at the Palace Saloon. IL is called the "Tiger Queen" and ranks high as a work of art. It will be rafiled of at an early day, at g per chance.
 Thomas Milligan, the veterIn barber of Prescott, after being out of business for several months, has opened a barber shop in the Prescott House, and solicits the patronage of his old friends and former patrons.
 Fresh candies and nuts; Marsh Nal low drops; Caramels cough lozenges; licorice drops; hoarhound drops; fancy French mixed; rock candy, and a gene ral assorment of Candies and Nuts, on Nontezuma street, opposite Court House. next to barber shop. j7tf
 The trustees of the Cherry Greek school district have displayed com mendable enterprise in furnis hing their school building with Yale scl4ool desks. They claim to have the best furnished in the Territory now. The desks were procured of Richard De Kuhn, who is sole agent of this Terri tory for these desks.
 A petition is being circulated for the release of Daley, convicted sometime since of assaulting Mrs. Con.iron, near Walnut Grove. It is being generally signed by citizens in the vicinity of where the assault took place, who seem to think that Daley's sentence was greater than the offense, for which he was convicted, warranted.
 Diatrict Court met at 10 o'clock this when the grand jury was em- paneled, with Thos. J. Eam.sn a- fore man. Judge Wright delivered a very able charge to them, among other things, taking s new departurc in charg- ing them to look after the assessment of the county. 10 the end that taxation might be capitalized; stating that, falsely sworn statement made to the assessor was as much a perjury as to BWear falsely on the stand
 The heartfelt sympsthies of every father and mother in Prescott goes put 70 Mr and Mrs. J c. Herndon in the they have sustained. in the death of their youngest child, Andrew aged about , years. Only week ago to-day he was on tine streets, the very picture of health and innocent to-day he lies in the cold em- brace of death, while the hearts of his parents, whoee idol he was, are almost broken, with grief unutteiable, and which can only be realized by those who have experienced such loss. Sel- iom have we seen a family more devo- led, in love to each other, than this, and the affiiction which they are called 10 pass through is sorely trying one.